Don´t be silly

Hello guys! Today there is something very special I want to talk
about DON’T BE SILLY! Many things that have happened to me
through the last couple of weeks that have shown me this little
lesson; but let me explain what I mean when I call you not to be
silly : )

Have you ever done team work in which you have to work with
someone you dislike and you end up doing a horrible job?

Have you ever had a family member who remains sick for months
because they think there’s nothing going on with their health but
it turns out to be deadly?

Have you ever gotten mad about your parents' nagging and then
regret not hearing their advice and wishing you made the mistakes
they warned you about?

Or have you simply just hurt someone you love based on your
own side of the story, but then felt horrible because when you
talk about things you pretty much feel like the ogre of the
story?

That is what I call being silly. We expect things to
happen, but not build the foundation for those things to finally
come to terms with. We demand our governments to act according to
principles and values we don’t practice ourselves. We defend some
rights as a “privilege” and totally forget some “less important
others.” We want to end war with another war.... the list could
go on and on but I think you’ve already realized that you – just
like me - are a bit silly and we both live in a silly world.

But hey! The solution is simple > get smart! By getting
thoughtful, I don’t want to live at a library but I want to be
kinder, I want to understand people, I want to literally be the
change I want to see out there.

Why? Because I´m getting tired of TV showing the new Kardashian
mansion and being silent about Gaza, (or giving distorted
information). I'm sick of football scandals knowing that there
are people being exploited at manufacturing centers. I sincerely
don’t care which celebrity took pictures at an exotic island, and
I would rather read Orwell or Huxley and enrich myself a little
more.

Do you want to know why governments continue to trample people?
Why there is labour exploitation to migrants and why human
trafficking and human slavery still exists? Because we are silly.
Don’t get me wrong we should live our lives to the fullest and
enjoy ourselves as well as the lovely things around us. But we
definitely need a bit more “humanity”, the one that makes us
think as one species, not as Colombians, Chileans, Taiwanese,
woman, men, young, professional or student but HUMAN.

Think for a minute that Palestine is your city, that the death
penalty is being applied to one of your family members or that
you´re taking a shower with water full of petroleum - did you
like that? Sure you did not, but if you want big things to happen
start by changing the little things that might be causing them to
develop.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak
out because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I
was not a Jew.

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